Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-23
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
4 Few Pointers On Cattle Feeding
EI!ctted From a Gentleman Ex-
perIenced in The Business.
The. SsusiifSansss CT the Vaius of Beef &c
That Of Corn-The Condition OF
PanIiandie Stock,

Mr.. John T. Besll, prominent stock
man of Colorado City, passed through
Fort Worth yesterday On his way to Mar,
in.
Mr.. S. L. james, Chico, N. NJ, stock.
man, WAS in the city last night. He says
moisture is very scarce article in his
part of the country, though cattle, as yet,
have not suffered for water to drink
Owing 10 the lack Of rain through the past
fall and summer, the grass is very poor.
The condition Of sffairs, though, says
Mr.. James, is not worse than the cattle
men are accustomed to in that part Of the
country; the unusual thing would be their
having coed season there for live stock.
However, Mr.. James did not appear to be
offended when he wss accused of being
kicker on principle.
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Mr.. 4. S. Nicholson returned Yesterday
to Fort Worth from ten days trip up in
the Panhandle, where he made q sale of
500 head Of Spur steers to Frank Houston
of Terrell, to be delivered about the first
of the new year. Mr.. Nicholson says the
cattle in the region of the Matador ranch
are in good condition, having SO far en-
couutered very fine weather. IL there
comes no sleet through the remainder OF
the winter the cattle Of the Panhandle
will not suffer. The snow which has fsl-
len has been rather benefit than detri-
ment to the stock, having furnished water
in many places where 1t had been dry.
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In answer to query whether there
were as many cattle being fed in North
Texas this year as last year, Mr.. a. S.
Nicholson said yes, there were, and they
had been purchased at prices little if any
less than were paid for feeding cattle
year ago.
"They must expect better prices in the
spring for them than was paid last year,
seeing feed costs more this winter"
"They certainly do, and they may be
confident CT it. notice the price being
paid for pork in the northern markets has
gone up pretty high lately, and that may
be relied upon as safe indication that
beef will 60 up, for the values Of beef and
pork run on parallel scale, being rather
in competition with each other. Corr
and whest stand in the same relation 60
one another. You never see corn quoted
very high without wheat being compsra-
lively steep"
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A reporter yesterday met Mr.. Thomas
CARTS, & farmer and stockman Of South
east Kansas who has up to this year made
1t practice to feed st least 100 steers
each winter, and who is 8 systematic man
in that line of business. The reporter
asked the gentleman TO give some Of the
results he had obtained from his expe-
rieuce. Among other things he said the
only really important mstter necessary to
fac6pTE wa %
ton Of hay and grain to be
Wsy 10 feed both together, and in
neglectiug to 60 this was the great error. |
Both the hay and the grain lose q large
percentage OF their food value by sepa.
rstipg them. 81 fnd," said Mr. Curtis, |
''that the best way to feed cattle is to cut
the hay ind moisten If, and NIX the |
ground feed with it so thst the two be- |
come thoroughly blended together. By |
this means porous condition is given to !
the food all through the process Of diges-
zion, and the food elements are the more |
completely assimilated and digested |
And 1 fad that fattening cattle need no |
more hay than is sufficient 10 mix with
the grain, for long dry hay, given be-
tween the feeds, will only obstruct dIges-
ton. a larger proportion Of clover
may be. profitable used with the
grain than of dry hay, for
good clover contains sll the elements of
fatteDiDg feed. All the clover an animal
can eat may be fed, for it only hiss the
effect of assisting digestion of the feed;
but 1t is quite otherwise with hay of
which only SO much should be given as
is required to give bulk to the grain.